Startling news just in! Startling in that it hasn’t been reported until today!
It seems that way before the Great WGA Strike of 2007, there was a problem regarding screenwriting credits between George Clooney and the Writer’s Guild of America. Clooney, who’s upcoming movie Leatherheads was based on a 17-year-old script he came across, rewrote the [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Enrique
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This is related to my previous post on studios getting sued.
Now that the WGA is officially back behind their desks (it wasn’t officially until last night), NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press may be eyeballing a lawsuit against them. According to Nikki Finke, the two are bitter about the writer’s strike having forced the Golden [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Enrique
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Now that the strike is (unofficially) over, Hollywood can finally move on and get to work… business as usual. Right?
Not quite.
This week alone, Hollywood studios have been slapped with THREE humongous lawsuits (more like 2 big ones and one mediocre, but publicity-worthy).
First up is New Line Cinema, which has barely settled their lawsuit with director [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Enrique
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All signs lead to yes.
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Enrique
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The WGA contract expired at midnight. The strike doesn’t start until tomorrow or Monday, but there’s already been one casualty: one of the major agencies is withholding a week’s worth of pay to ALL their employees in order to have more “financial flexibility.”
(Update: rumors are indicating the agency cutting pay is ICM, a truly major [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Enrique
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(Via Slashfilm) Whether it got the okay from the WGA or not, the point is clear: writers may need to find other jobs if the strike lasts long (or worse). What isn’t clear is whether the time spent making this video couldn’t been better spent actually trying to handle the negotations…
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Enrique
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I don’t really see this affecting the movie side of things much, but it’s still an interesting development.
According to Defamer, word in the secret lair of studio execs is that they now WANT the Writer’s Guild of America to go on strike next month, after their contract expires (btw, who the hell decides to make [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Enrique
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“Not Taiwanese enough” is how Anne Thompson over at Variety described Ang Lee’s latest movie Lust, Caution, after it was denied a nomination for the upcoming Academy Awards. Apparently, in order to qualify as a foreign movie, your entire crew must be from the same country.
Check out Variety Asia for a more diplomatic explanation.
So there [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Enrique
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